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01. cover: lauren jennings on cello 02. seven days what’s on | gig guide03. talisa jobe04. summer in the parks05. summer in the parks 06. food fossickers | sound off07. arts: megan spencer | what’s hot 08. tom tuena | her majesty

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HeartbeatGeneral meeting at 2pmAnne Caudle Chapel.

Bendigo Writers’ CouncilMeet and Greet and a mini Round Robin of 10 minutes.Bonus for published authors – if you would like to bring your books along there will be a table for you to display and promote them.Best Community Develop-ment Building, St Andrews Avenue, BendigoSupper provided. Details 5443 3469.

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It wasn’t that long ago she could barely pick up a guitar, let alone play one.

Over the past two years she’s endured two shoulder reconstructions from “use and abuse” and operations on both wrists for carpal tunnel syndrome.

“I did a lot of heavy work helping my dad building houses, riding motorbikes and � xing cars,” she said. “I’ve always been an active person.”

Luckily, her performances post-op have been pitch perfect.

“The past few years I haven’t felt ready to really burst into it (her music),” she said.

“I haven’t really started sinking my teeth into it until last year.”

But after a spellbinding performance at a jam session at the Newmarket Hotel last year, seen by SITP talent scout Colin Thompson in the crowd, TJ’s name was quickly added to the SITP bill.

Thompson picks up the story.“I’m really grateful to have stumbled

across TJ performing at the Thursday night jam sessions at the Newmarket

Hotel a few months back,” he said. “From the moment she started play-

ing, she stopped everyone in the room, dead in their tracks.

“She unleashes such genuine passion through her music.

“In my honest opinion, this young lady’s music will take her as far as she allows it to. She’s a real uncut diamond. What TJ lacks in experience (for now), she more than makes up for in pure talent and the incredibly emotive performance of her very well written songs.”

The casual TJ took the promotion in her stride.

“I didn’t realise it was such a big thing to be honest,” she said.

“It was good to know (her services were required), but I didn’t realise the calibre of people playing. I was very sur-prised.”

For TJ, a few months working on a new style, and networking with Bendigo’s many musicians, has paid o� .

“I’ve been around a lot the past few months,” she said.

“I’ve been everywhere, from jam nights, staying at people’s houses playing guitar until � ve o’clock in the morning.”

Her new technique has also caught a few ears around town.

“I’ve got a certain style I’ve been work-ing on at the moment which is a har-monic style, which is a little bit di� erent to what’s around,” she said.

Just don’t ask her to describe it to you.“You’re asking the wrong person, I’m

not real good at describing this kind of stu� !” she laughed.

“When I play live I seem to get a lot of people sucked in.

“I usually get a lot of attentive listening to what I’m playing.”

With all of this week’s rain Rosa-lind Park may be awash. Depend-ing on weather, the organisers will decide today whether to relocate to the Town Hall. Check at www.bendigoweekly.com.au or the b.entertained facebook page after 3pm for details.

It’s all come together pret-ty quickly for Bendigo muso Talisa Jobe.A� ection-ately and pro-fessionally known as TJ, the 21 year old classically guitar trained pocket rocket will open the Summer In The Parks tonight.

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Runtime: 87 minsOpening: January 13 2010Genre: Drama/MusicDirector: Steven AntinCast: Christina

Aguilera, Cher, Eric DaneSynopsis: The Burlesque Lounge has its best days behind it. Tess (Cher), a retired dancer and owner of the venue, struggles to keep the aging theatre alive, facing all kinds of � nancial and artistic challenges. With the Lounge’s troupe members becoming increasingly distracted by personal problems and a threat coming from a wealthy businessman’s quest to buy the spot from Tess, the good fortune

seems to have abandoned the club altogether. Meanwhile, the life of Ali (Christina Aguilera), a small-town girl from Iowa, is about to change dramatically. Hired by Tess as a waitress at the Lounge, Ali escapes a hollow past and quickly falls in love with the art of burlesque. Backed by new-found friends amongst the theatre’s crew, she manages to ful� l her dreams of being on stage herself. Things take a dramatic turn though when Ali’s big voice makes her become the main attraction of the revue.

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THE scene was set for the perfect summer evening.

Picnic blankets and fold up chairs were in position... and the eskies were open – al-beit alcohol free.

Then the music started.Summer in the Parks kicked of musically

last Friday in Rosalind Park, o� ering two and a half hours of free music from three sets of performers.

Musician Colin Thompson was talent liai-son for the event and seemed pleased with the turnout and the event in general.

Mind you, he didn’t work alone.“The City of Greater Bendigo council fully

fund the program,” he said.“Aside from my liaising with the artists

and bands to book them all in this year, the council’s community grants and events of-� cer Craig Wright did all the administrative stu� .”

Colin said Craig put together the nec-

essary contracts and other paperwork, booked the staging and sound production and crew.

Come 7pm all was ready for Alicia and Alanna Egan, pictured below, to kick o� the festival.

Sultry sounds with a jazz twist was a real crowd pleaser... the perfect start to a per-fect evening.

Jacob McGu� e, below right, and band were next up and proved a crowd pleaser in more ways than musically.

“I love a nicely put-together man with a beard,” said one onlooker.

The Bride Stripped Back, right, � nished the evening as full darkness blanketed the crowd of some 450 music fans.

A rocky sound proving the perfect back-ground to the end of � ne evening of music.

The audience was a genuine mix from babes-in-arms to those happily retired... and all ages in between, making it a truly family event.

The bats were there in small numbers, the mossies had a di� erent idea and were there in force.

Bring your Aerogard next time you’re out in the park.

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Seymour:1. Me and Bobby McGee – Janis Joplin. The imagery of a cross-country trip, the pain of a lost love and the wild abondment as she lets loose at the end. Perfect.

2. Hard to Handle – Otis Redding. The original Mac Daddy and for mine the best male vocalist in recorded history. This is him at his � nest.

3. More News From Nowhere – Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds. Groovy, dark, funny, ambiguous - a lot like the great man himself. 4. Wild Thing – Cold Chisel. All of Don Walker’s originals are brilliant songs but this live cover version from Last Stand captures the boys at their peak.

5. Run’s House – RUN DMC. This is what hip hop is all about. A classic!

6. You Sound Like Louis Burdett – The Whitlams. Everyone has a friend like Louis. An ode to beloved dickhead mates and long summer nights. 7. Love Me Like I Love You – Wagons. Hands down the best band in Australia at the moment. I could have chosen any song from their latest album. This one grabs the tragic romantic in me.

8. Nitty Gritty - Skewi� . Put this one on and the whole room starts dancing, even people who have never heard it before. Irresistable.

9. Folsom Prison – Johhny Cash. Easily the most played song live down here at the bar. A timeless crowd favourite.

10. Jolene – The White Stripes. I chose this because it covers two of my all time favourite acts. The White stripes cover of the Dolly Parton original. Can it get any better?

1. Walk This Way – Aerosmith. Not the Run DMC version, the original version from the album “Toys In The Attic”. This album had such an in� uence on me in the 70s, that in the early 90s I had the whole album cover tattooed on my right arm (that’s commitment).

2. Layla – Eric Clapton (Derek and The Dominoes). What can I say, just an unmistakable piece of rock history. 3. Blackwater – The Doobie Brothers. This song has it all. Great groove, great musicianship, great singing. it struck a chord with me when I was about eight years old. 4. Delta Lady – Leon Russell (Joe Cocker). I became an instant Joe Cocker fan when I heard this, it just oozes passion, and epitomises the era. 5. Angel – Jimi Hendrix. Nobody can deny his innovation and contribu- tion to guitar playing and rock/blues music as we know it today. 6. Bought And Sold – Rory Gallagher. One of the world’s most underrated players of rock/blues guitar. Brilliant song writer, multi-instrumentalist, and explosive “live” performer. This is just a feel-good song. 7. Bow River – Cold Chisel (Ian Moss). Aussie rock at its � nest. 8. West Is The Way – The Stars. Mick Pealing is one of Australia’s � nest voices. I fell in love with this song the day I heard it way back when. R.I.P. Andy Durant, and may The Stars live on. 9. Can’t Find My Way Home – Blind Faith (Steve Winwood) A simple song with simple chords and simple lyrics by one of the “Super Groups” of the 60s. Just beautiful. 10. Let It Roll – Little Feat. This is what music is all about. This song is BIG. Anyone who can’t rock on with this just isn’t having a go. Is that 10? Oh yes it is. I could go on and on.

Chris Meek:

Scott Seymour of The Basement Bar and folk musician and Bendigo Music Alliance president Chris Meek go mano-a -mano over musical taste.

HERE’S another morsel: there are Australians who not only have never tasted yabbies but also don’t even know what they are. Even when we have met the small Australian freshwater cray� sh, we tend to be sni� y about its culinary assets.

Clive Mitchell, who could fairly be called the yabby king of Maldon, is a laconic bloke, who does not use three words where two will su� ce. When you tell him there are those who think the idea of a Gourmet Yabbie Pie is an oxymoron, he responds, “Their loss”.

Clive’s advice on how to cook a yabby is equally succinct: “I suggest you have more than one, for a start.”

Yabbie pies (gourmet) and bread and butter pudding masquerading as fritatta-erish things will be on the minds and plates of all those lucky enough to have a seat at one of the 130 tables laid out sumptuously in Maldon’s Main Street tomorrow.

The Maldon and Beyond Taste of Gold Twilight Food and Wine Festival (unlike Clive, brevity is clearly not high on the priority list here) was set up four years ago. It has grown so popular, it books out early. We are talking more than 1000 people, some of whom chu� into town on the steam train from Castlemaine.

This year, they are adding live music to the mix, with the opera singers of Quattro Voci on hand to serenade diners as the dusk comes down, and the candlelight kicks in.

Enter the pies and pudding.According to Lynette Chapple, who along with her husband Arthur has been part

of the organising committee for TMaBToGTFaWF, the way it works is that each table is set with a platter of gourmet delicacies, included in the $15 ticket.

That’s where the bread and butter pudding comes in, described alternatively as “an entree of smoked salmon and prawn mousse with herbed croutons”, or “a � ttata-erish thing” by John Thorpe.

He is one of the many Maldon locals who appear to get a kick out of dicing with the weather gods and catering for 1000 friends and visitors out of doors in the middle of January each year.

John is part of the Men’s Cooking Group, an initiative of the Maldon Neighbour-hood Centre. Every week, a few men get together at the centre to chop vegetables, drink wine, and mull over the meaning of life, hopefully learning a little about how to prepare and cook good food along the way.

The Group put their hands up this year to do the platters for the festival, and John is sublimely con� dent for a man who has never before in his entire life catered for a gaggle let alone a crowd.

“I’m sure it will all work out”, he says, admitting too that it’s not the cooking that interests him so much, but the social occasion it provides.

It is John’s strategic thinking that has morphed the savoury bread and butter pud-ding into this platter-special, which he says is a wonderfully adaptable dish. You chop the bread into croutons, soak them in egg, add in whatever takes your fancy - salmon, prawn, vegetables, even rice - then bake them. Hey presto – “man-made nibbles” as John describes them.

Clive’s Gourmet Yabbie Pies, along with yabbie burgers and pate, will be available from the stalls dotted around the periphery of the street-dining-room, and there will also be about eight local wineries represented (including the Chapple’s Cairn Curran Winery – they’ll be o� ering a nice light rose, chilled to a nose-tingling crisp for the occasion).

“We do it for the community”, Lynette says. And what will they do if it rains? Adopting the Maldon style of response, Lynette

says simply: “Don’t ask.”

Here’s a totally useless but amusing little fact about Australian taste: o er someone some-thing called savoury bread and butter pud-ding and they are more than likely to say no thanks. Call it a “frit-tata-erish thing” and they’ll say yes please, and gobble it down.

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DETAILS:Maldon Yabby Farm: 0418 506332 Chapple’s Cairn Curran Winery, 329 Seers Rd, Welshmans Reef: 5475 1039 The Men’s Cooking Group, meets weekly at the Maldon Neighbourhood Centre (on holidays until later this month): for information 5475 2093.

COMING UP:Talbot Farmers Market this Sunday, Scandinavian Crescent, Talbot 5463 2001

QUOTE OF THE WEEK:“An onion can make people cry but there has never been a vegetable to make people laugh.” (Pioneering televi-sion cowboy star, Will Rogers.)

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eyeThis is an excellent exhibition. The quality of the

work is high with the gallery making the most of it within the space, literally stu� ed full.

I’m someone who supports the “more is more” prin-ciple when it comes to showing good work, especially at regional art spaces. Being shy doesn’t cut it.

The only aspect with which I’m a little at odds is Terra Australis Incognita’s stated theme. I found it a bit generic and inconsistently supported.

Pretty much any documentary photo exhibition these days is an exploration of “identity and place.”

I found TAI more revealing about the inner workings of each artist’s perspective and personality, and about their relationship with the world around them or their place within it – save perhaps for Donna Bailey and Dean Sewell, whose Kangaroo directly connects to landscape and nature’s brutality.

But even that is a surreal nightmare which speaks volumes about his way of seeing.Either way, it doesn’t matter. Terra Australis Incognita is a cracking show.

There are more than 50 works by 10 phtographers, Tamara Voninski being one. She uses a Holga plastic camera to take black and white pictures of Sydney’s inner-city-scape,lodged � rmly between waking life and sleep. She as-sured me when we met that they were all documented from ‘real life’. I intuited (but enjoyed imagining oth-erwise) that they might have been set up, such is

the delicious tension between fact and � ction in her images. (Especially the homeless Santa shot; a man in a Santa suit sleeping rough near a sign that reads “hungry and broke”.)

“These pictures keep me awake at night,” she con� ded, having just � own to Victoria with baby Axel. “My photos are how I see the world; they’re my dreamworld… My camera doesn’t let me sleep.”

Born in upstate New York, Tamara now lives in Sydney. Her eight images in this show re� ect the shadows and fragments of life speeding past in-side such a vast, concrete metropolis. Blink and you’ll miss this - unless you have an eye like hers. That she uses such an impermanent toy camera impressed me. Holgas possess magic qualities where happy accidents are regular. “I’ve worn out so many,” she laughs of her beloved tool. Inspiring to be around such dedicatio Donna Bailey’s large format images counteract Tamara’s urban dreamscapes, � lled with light, family and land. Her 10 photos were taken in the peri-od prior to her 2010 Bendigo Art Gallery show, ‘Don’t Play On The Mullock’.

“I’m a mum, a country girl and a photographer,” she proclaims, happily juggling all to make a challenging, proli� c, art-� lled life.

An Oculi member since 2006, the Kangaroo Flat resident connects deeply with the harsh dusty ground on which she lives, and the ever-changing local land-scape.

One of Donna’s best pictures is of her free-spirited teenage daughter, feeding a bird a biscuit from her mouth, with the golden sun in her face and a blonde hill lurking behind, almost a pillow on which to lay her head.

Summer never looked so good in Bendigo. The Post O� ce Gallery has summer events on o� er too – a series free of lunchtime talks about its Naming Bendigo exhibition.

Local history experts and curator Sandra Bruce will guide you through some of the � ner details of the exhibit. Contact the Gallery for details.Oculi: Terra Australis Incognita: A Photographic Sur-vey, Latrobe Visual Arts Centre, 121 View Street, Ben-digo. Until February 13. Catalogues available.

More about Oculi photographers @ www.oculi.com.au

Post O� ce Gallery, 51-67 Pall Mall, Bendigo. Tel: 5434 6179.

Photos:Tamara Dean, The Tea Party, 2008.Dean Sewell, Kangaroo (detail). Canberra Bush� re series, 2003.Dean Sewell, Flora and Fauna, 2009.Andrew Quilty, The Domain Sydney, 2006.

Latrobe VAC ushers in 2011 with a mighty photographic survey, Oculi: Terra Australis Incognita.Oculi is the Sydney-based photography collective from which the work was curated (which now includes Bendigo’s Donna Bai-ley,) while Terra Aus-tralis Incognita refers to the meditation on Australian identity and place, which the show is billed as...

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“Too many (weddings) to count!” he laughed.“I play a mix of covers and originals.”But after dropping his most recent album, Tuena’s enjoyed a relatively quiet January wedding/gig-wise, so tonight he’s refreshed and ready to charm Bendigo all over again.Tuena has become a regional gun for hire. Summer In The Parks talent hound Colin Thompson drafted him in for the Bendigo Blues and Roots fundraiser late last year and now he’s a key piece of the SITP furniture.The musical journey began in Shepparton, after watch-ing his two elder sisters learn piano. And piano quickly turned to punk as Tuena formed local punk band, Written Approval.The band fronted a series of FREEZA gigs during their reign, so he’s pretty down with the whole outdoor festival thing. Now based in Hawthorn and 26, Tuena eventually veered from anti establishment rebellion to positive relaxation.“There is a little bit of that (the punk ideal) still in-built

in me ,” he admitted earlier this week.“I guess I developed a negative attitude towards my cir-cumstance and situation.“I hadn’t reached the level of maturity to look at a situation that I was in and look at the positives.“I didn’t see how I could turn these things into a positive and develop character.”Today, his music is brimming with positivity and charac-ter. It’s also his occupation, through either playing gigs or bringing his gift into the class room, as a teacher with Metro Music.For those wanting to pick up the subtle art of strumming, Tuena has a few words of advice.“Get your chords going,” he said. “Get about three chords working. You need to think of it like a langauge.“Learn a chord a day and eventually you’ll build up a repe-toire.“Once you get about three or four chords going, the next step would be changing between them, nice and quick.

“Passing on tips is great, it’s the only way music survives.”Every performance for Tuena is a moment of personal ex-pression.“Every time I play music it’s re� ecting honesty, I try to keep it as pure as possible,” he said.His biggest inspiration comes from above.“My biggest in� uence right now is through Christ,” he said.Back on planet rock, it’s Lauryn Hill; speci� cally her break-out 1998 album, The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill. “I love her truth. Some of her lyrics really speak to me,” he said.“They are saying ‘have a look at yourself’. They point out things within my own life. “I think our ego and sel� sh ambition can get in the way of producing good wholesome music.“She’s an artist who really speaks directly into my heart.”Tuena has his sights on yours too. “I like to leave peole with hope and love,” he said.“Full of joy, I think that’s the best thing.

Things you should know: Tom Tuena spends some of his musical time as a wed-ding singer. But not in the cheesy 80s cover version vein, thank god.

No Dead Or Alive pastiches to be found here, the Shep-parton born solo artist’s heartfelt acoustic ditties have been in high demand.

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Title: Morning GloryRating: PG

Director: Roger MichellComedy | Drama | RomanceReviewer: Robert Gibson

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robert’s rating 7/10

VETERAN actor Harrison Ford’s role in Morning Glory mirrors his long movie career. He plays Mike Pomeroy – a multi award-winning journalist who appears to have peaked and been put out to pasture.

Ford’s early work is movie history - from American Gra¡ ti (1973), the Star Wars trilogy (1977-83), the � rst three Indian Jones movies (1981-1989) to his very early work which included a small part in the � lm classic Zabriskie Point (1970).

Films such as Apocalypse Now, Witness, The Mosquito Coast, Patriot Games, Sabrina and Air Force One were added to the list.

His � lm work in the noughties has not had as much success, like the character Mike Pomeroy who is � rst seen in Morning Glory working out a “no opposition” contract clause by partak-ing in various leisure pursuits including hunting.

Also like Pomeroy, Morning Glory marks an interesting point in Ford’s transition from adventure movie roles to comedy drama work.

He is perfectly cast as a crusty, belligerent and intolerant jour-nalist who regrets not still living the days of his former glory.

He appears to lack any humility and tells all who care to listen of his talents and their lack of use.

This quirky drama that is full of many comedic moments is also held to together by female lead Becky Fuller (Rachel Mc-Adams) and a great ensemble cast headed by veteran Diane Keaton.

Fuller’s character is at its early stages and is the unlikely foil for Pomeroy’s narcissism.

As a young executive producer, Fuller is charged with saving a tired morning TV show and cleverly works Pomeroy, against his will, into an anchor role alongside Keaton’s co-anchor character Colleen Peck.

Other stand out characters include Matt Malloy’s role as the weather man Ernie Appleby, Patrick Wilson as Fuller’s love inter-est Adam Bennett and veteran Je ̈ Goldblum as Fuller’s network boss.

There are also the customary cameos, now expected in Ameri-can comedy-dramas, by a number of people playing them-selves, including rapper 50 Cent.

Aline Brosh McKenna’s screenplay has a typical warm and fuzzy ending but it is entertaining along the way.

While it is not in the league of Network or Broadcast News, the movie adequately portrays the cut-throat world of network television and uses New York as a backdrop to the city’s best advantage.

Morning Glory isn’t a classic but it is de� nitely a good indicator showing that Harrison Ford is not � nished yet.

robert gibson

08|Friday,January 14, 2011

ben cameron

HEADING o ̈ tonight’s stellar showcase will be a band that has been at the forefront of Bendigo’s music scene for the past decade.They are the instrumental group known as the Tyson Hodges Trio. The trio, made up of the drumming powerhouse Colin Thompson, the infectious bass grooves of Don Webb and of course the incredibly virtuosic blues-laden guitar-work of the band’s namesake, Tyson Hodges, are in� uenced by the likes of The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, The Tea Party, Jimi Hendrix and Je ̈ Lang. However, Tyson notes that the in� uences are very broad and that TH3’s music is “a bit of everything, it’s bluesy rock and folky. There’s a good blend of eastern and western styles.” No strangers to Rosalind Park performances, TH3 partnered up with blues legend Geo ̈ Achison to give a beautiful, dynamic performance as part of last year’s Summer In The Parks. “TH3 have played all sorts of gigs and festivals but last year’s Summer In The Parks would be one of our highlights,” Hodges said. Being an instrumental group, Tyson uses his guitar as a vehicle to do all the storytelling, and that’s one of the things that he loves most. “I’ve never been a singer and have always used my guitar to express myself,” he said. With an estimated 600 attendees for last year’s TH3 show, it was one of the Bendigo’s musical high points and was quite magical watching the band play into the sunset. “It’s good to see the support in Bendigo growing” Hodges said. “The attendance last year was really great.” Whether you are familiar with their music or not, you should need no more convincing to come along tonight and check out one of the � nest bands our city has ever produced– they are always a pleasure to watch perform. Bring along the kiddies, as all ages and family friendly performances are a rare thing these days; if there’s a band that can help the youngsters gain an appreciation for live and original music it is undoubtedly TH3. The trio will also be releasing their � rst live album very soon. The album was recorded during numerous shows at St. Andrews, a pub in Melbourne that Tyson cites as being one of the band’s favourite venues. The album is currently being mixed and will be ready in the next few months.

th3BENDIGO metal juggernauts Her Majesty are continuing to push the bar higher and are mak-ing strong waves in Australia’s metal and hardcore communities. After supporting Carnifex (USA) in Melbourne last week, they are now pushing their brand new EP ‘Odious’ up and down Australia’s east coast with a 15-date tour. What’s more is that they’re kicking o ̈ the tour right here in Bendigo with an all ages show at the Musicman Megastore this Sunday and an 18+ show at The Newmarket next Tuesday. Make sure you get yourself along to one of the shows and pick up a copy of their new EP. And pick up b.entertained next week for a review of it!

Her Majesty - tearing up the East Coast

Photo: Alex Kerr

Photo: Alex Kerr

b.entertained issue 19

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